Up 3 pounds :o)

Friday, October 30, 2009

I had my appt today. They are 4 weeks apart and I was up only 3 pounds by their numbers. by mine I could have been up as much as 5 so I was happy. Not getting complacent though because the nausea and for the most part the indigestion (hello TUMS!) is gone so I'm finding myself back to my old snacking habits. Sweets and carbs.

FYI at this point most are encouraged to gain a pound a week but if you are overweight to start with you should gain less. So the midwife was happy with my numers. I am officially at the mid-point today too. 20 more weeks to go... hopefully not 20 pounds though!

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My new weight loss technique- Pregnancy!

Monday, September 21, 2009

Ha!
So really early in the pregancy I gained 5 lbs. I had gained 5 lbs by the time I was 9 weeks pregnant (actually you're only 7 weeks pregnant at the point). I was a little panicky about it but I had to eat often to keep the nausea down.
At my 9 week visit I talked to the midwife about it and she said not to worry. She has seen people plateau when they start feeling better. Well it started that week. I actually lost a little.

I've been hovering between 169 and 170 ever since then. (I'm 14 weeks now) This morning I was down to 168.6. WTH? The only thing I can say is that the nausea isn't as bad but I don't really desire to snack on food. I don't get the good high from eating so I only eat when I can tell that I need to. People have commented that my face looks thinner and if I'm hiding my belly people think I've lost weight. I'm good with that... although from this point on I am supposed to see weight gain every week.

I have not been logging this whole time but I think I need to start. When I don't pay attention to what I eat (ie, logging) I tend to eat mostly carbs and not enough dairy or protein. I think that not having enough protein contributed to having pre-term labor with my last pregancy... I also had low amnionic fluid mid-way because I wasn't drinking enough water. Guess what? I'm not drinking water this time either! It seems to go along with the nausea... no desire to drink water. I do OK with drinking juice etc but I have myself so trained not to drink calories that I won't drink them but when I pour myself a glass of water I just sits there.

Oh and the other concern that shows that I need to focus on my diet AND taking my vitamins is that I keep getting an eye twitch. When my prenatal vitamins ran out I didn't refill them because I have this old bottle of expensive vitamins that I want to use up. The problem? You have to take 6 capsules spread out during the day to get the full dose. I don't do well swallowing vitamins so I was only getting the evening dose. When the twitch started I decided to start taking them three x 2 times a day. That is helping but I still have to force myself to take the early dose. I should have them used up within the week and I'll go back to the prenatal which is only one tablet every night.

Action Plan?
1. I started logging today. I updated my Sparkpeople nutrition tracker to have the right amount of calories and nutrients for pregnancy. I don't really like the Babyfit tracker because it isn't as thorough.
2. I will count all clear liquids in my water intake. I think it's better to be getting the water somehow and not so important the empty calories. I do add just enough juice to flavor the water. Yesterday I made a really weak limeade (with fresh limes)which I was able to get down pretty well.

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Do you have a friend/relative who seems out of God's reach?

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

This isn't a typical entry for me. Actually if I was on top of my spiritual form these would be more common but I've been pretty subdued lately. Probably for the best. haha

Anyways I'm posting this as a response to a topic in my Christ-Centered Recovery team. My step-dad is an athiest and even getting prostrate cancer and being treated in a Christian facility didn't budge him. So I was feeling discouraged about this. Then I read this in "My Utmost for His Highest" (Oswald Chambers). Originally written in the early '30's so his language is pretty deep.

June 1st
THE STAGGERING QUESTION
"Son of Man, can these bones live?" Ezekiel 37:3

Can that sinner be turned into a saint? Can that twisted life be put right? There is only one answer: "O Lord, Thou knowest, I don't." Never trample in with religious common sense and say -- "Oh, yes, with a little more Bible reading and devotion and prayer, I see how it can be done."

It is much easier to DO something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration. That is why there are so few fellow workers WITH God and so many workers FOR Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him. Am I quite sure that God will do what I cannot do? I despair of men in the degree in which I have never realized that God has done anything for me. Is my experience such a wonderful realization of God's power and might that I can never despair of anyone I see? Have I had any spiritual work done in me at all? The degree of panic is the degree of the lack of personal spiritual experience.

"Behold, O my people, I will open your graves." When God wants to show you what human nature is like apart from Himself, He has to show it you in yourself. If the Spirit of God has given you a vision of what you are apart from the grace of God (and He only does it when His Spirit is at work), you know there is no criminal who is half so bad in actuality as you know yourself to be in possibility. My "grave" has been opened by God and "I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing." God's Spirit continually reveals what human nature is like apart from His Grace.

Weighing in and other follow up

Thursday, June 04, 2009

First of all to follow up from yesterday. Hubby didn't get home with MIL until 2:30 in the morning. But she is much better now. They said she had a low-grade fever and it was good that we had her checked. They think it was bronchitis so she's on antibiotics. She seems to be back to her old self today.

Jury Duty: well, I didn't take the time to log my food as I packed it so I felt a little behind the 8-ball. But I did pack healthy food. But I had more trouble with snacking while there. You know - they have those little vending machines with the candy in them. So I had some of that as well as some hot cocoa. I think it was a combo of boredom and anxiety about having to make a decision on the case. We will be deciding the case tomorrow morning. I doubt it will take us very long so I won't pack a lunch. I DID tell the sitter that I would leave Becca with her so I can get projects done around the house if I get home early.

Now on to another thing I've been wanting to blog about (procrastinating packing lunches again!) Last weekend I got really down because the scale just kept going up. I hadn't been doing that bad so then I started to feel like there wasn't any point in eating right etc. I'm sure others can relate. So the self-sabatoging started which is just going to move me in the wrong direction.

On Wed I talked to my CR sponsor about that. I was telling her that I feel like weighing myself helps me be accountable so I don't think not weighing is a good choice. BUT I don't think it is right to have my self-esteem tied to what the scale says. I should be proud of myself simply for eating what I know that I should and exercising. If I get pregnant I won't be able to lose weight but I still want to be making good choices. Last time I noticed that I used the pregnancy as an excuse to go back to old habits. I guess what I'm saying is that I want goals that I can sustain no matter what situation I'm in.

God is good... probably the very next day after talking to my sponsor the answer came to me. I always weigh myself morning and night (I realize this is obsessive!). I don't take too much stock in the evening weight because I expect it to be a few pounds more than the morning weight. What I'm looking for are trends in the weight. So this is what I've decided. NO weighing myself in the morning except on Fridays which are my official weigh-in days. On other days I can weigh myself at night. Then if I get a bad weigh-in, all I'm doing is going to bed. Self-sabatoging doesn't really happen because the emotion of it is gone when I wake up the next morning. I just start out the day normally.

So how's this going? It's been really hard not to weigh myself in the morning. I've slipped up a few times but totally regretted it. Its just reinforcing that this is the right choice. I'm happy to say that I weighed myself tonight and I've had my best night weight in a long time. Hope it actually shows up on Friday since I've been puffy with the heat!

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Today was a mixed bag...

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

There were so many things I can say good about today. I had jury duty and had to leave the house at 6:45AM. I stayed up late the night before and packed a huge lunch with snacks and I logged it as I went so I was all caught up except for dinner. I brought my water bottle with me (and unlike the airport, they allow it thru security!) We had a long lunch so I took a 30 min walk. Could have gone longer but brought no sunscreen and was "feeling the burn" but not in a good way! Before dinner I had already got my 10 half-servs of freggies.

On the flip side, I didn't handle that waiting period before dinner well. I DID have fruit as one of my snacks but I also ate some of those gummy raspberries by HARIBO. The good news is that they are gone and I won't buy them again. I used to love them as a kid but they dont seem as good to me now. Maybe that's a good sign? I went over by 85 cals according to my estimates. I guess that's not too bad.

I get to do JD again tomorrow since I'm sitting on a trial. It is supposed to finish tomorrow although something tells me it might go until Thurs. So I need to do the lunch thing again. Up late tonight because my MIL was really loopy and I had to send hubby to the ER with her. She wasn't coherant and hardly moving around. He just called and they think it is an infection of some kind so she might come back home tonight. (I would rather they keep her since I won't be home tomorrow to check on her.)

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